在1990年成立三年后，该乐队进入了一个更加专业的阶段，由吉他手Cristiano Fusco，贝斯手Wagner“ Castor”，鼓手Amilcar Christofaro和主唱兼歌手Vitor Rodrigues组成。 他们开始在圣保罗及其周围地区巡回演出，并很快录制了一个于1993年发行的演示，名为《地狱的灵魂》。 他们的第一张专辑是Shivering（1995）； 他们的突破来自《影子庇护》（Asylum of Shadows，1999）。
他们的2001年专辑《 The Unholy Spell》就在乐队首次赴德国巡回演唱之后。在2002年，克里斯蒂亚诺·富斯科（Cristiano Fusco）离开了乐队，并聘请了毛里西奥·诺盖拉（Mauricio Nogueira）（经验丰富的录音棚音乐家，他曾为克里斯蒂安（Krisiun）以及其他本地乐队，如《地狱》和《佐尔塔尔》（The Hell and Zoltar）演出），并进行了首次巴西巡回演出。
由Marcello Pompeu和Heros Trench（Korzus）生产的Pandemonium于2003年发行。该CD的电视录像带支持“ Pandemonium”和“ Horror and Torture”。再次，乐队在巴西各地演出。然后，在2006年，酷刑小队开始了欧洲巡演，在德国的16个城镇和奥地利的4个城镇中成为头条新闻。之后，他们在巴西的更多城市演出，直到他们参加了著名的Wacken露天音乐节的巴西预选。他们最终在圣保罗赢得了决赛，并代表巴西参加了Wacken Battle of the Bands 2007，并赢得了冠军。这次胜利为他们赢得了与世界末日唱片（德国）的合同； Mauricio Nogueira还获得了“最佳吉他演奏家”奖，这为他赢得了全新的Dean吉他和Marshall前置放大器。
《末日狂飙》于2008年5月由世界末日大决战发行，当时毛里西奥·纳盖拉（Mauricio Nogueira）因个人原因离开了乐队，而奥古斯托·洛佩斯（Eternal Malediction）被宣布为新吉他手。 2008年，酷刑小队开始了为期60天的欧洲巡演，其中包括在Wacken Open Air上的表演。
他们的最新录音室专辑“ AEquilibrium”于2010年8月在欧洲由Wacken Records / H’art / Zebralution / SAOL发行。他们录制了第三张专辑“ The Unholy Spell”的主打曲目的新版本，该专辑以“ The Unholy Spell 2010”为标题作为奖励曲目收录。这张专辑是在Norcal Studios的圣保罗/巴西与制作人Brendan Duffey和Adriano Daga一起录制的。
2011年1月，吉他手Augusto Lopes离开了乐队，由AndréEvaristo取代。即使阵容改变，乐队也不会停下来，直到同年7月才继续上路。一个月后，乐队又一次穿越海洋，参加2011年“平衡巡回演唱会”的欧洲部分，直到10月底为止，它在12个国家/地区举办了40场音乐会，其中包括德国音乐节Wacken Open Air的第三场音乐会，酷刑小队成为唯一一支在音乐节上演奏三场的巴西乐队。
Torture Squad is a Brazilian death/thrash metal band, founded in 1990.
History
Three years after being founded in 1990, the band entered a more professional phase, in a line-up with founder Cristiano Fusco on guitar, Wagner “Castor” on bass, Amilcar Christofaro on drums, and Vitor Rodrigues as frontman and singer. They started touring in and around São Paulo and soon recorded a demo, released in 1993, A Soul in Hell. Their first CD was Shivering (1995); their break-through came with Asylum of Shadows (1999).
Their 2001 album, The Unholy Spell, came right after the band’s first tour in Germany. In 2002, Cristiano Fusco left the band, and the band hired Mauricio Nogueira (a seasoned studio musician who played for Krisiun as well as other local bands like In Hell and Zoltar), and went on their first Brazilian tour.
Pandemonium produced by Marcello Pompeu and Heros Trench (Korzus) was released in 2003. The CD was supported by a TV video clip for “Pandemonium” and “Horror and Torture.” Again, the band played all over Brazil. Then, in 2006 Torture Squad embarked on a European tour, headlining in 16 towns in Germany and 4 in Austria. Afterward they played in more cities in Brazil until they participated in the Brazilian pre-selection for the famed Wacken Open Air festival. They eventually won the final in São Paulo, and they represented Brazil at Wacken Battle of the Bands 2007, which they won. This victory won them a contract with Armageddon Records (Germany); Mauricio Nogueira also won the “best guitar player” award, which earned him a brand new Dean guitar and a Marshall pre-amp.
Hellbound, was released in May 2008 by Armageddon, not long after Mauricio Nogueira left the band for personal reasons and Augusto Lopes (Eternal Malediction) was announced as the new guitarist. In 2008, Torture Squad embarked on a 60-date European tour, which will include a show at Wacken Open Air.
The year of 2009 started pretty well for Torture Squad. After the release of Hellbound and its excellent repercussion in Brazil, Europe and the United States, it was followed by a European tour with two of the world’s major thrash metal bands, Overkill and Exodus. The tour began in mid February in London, where the Brazilian group performed for the first time, and included 12 more shows in countries like Spain, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the Czech Republic.
Their most recent studio album “AEquilibrium” was released in Europe in August 2010 by Wacken Records / H’art / Zebralution / SAOL. They recorded a new version for the title track of their third album “The Unholy Spell” which is included as bonus track with the title of “The Unholy Spell 2010”. The album was recorded in São Paulo/Brazil, at Norcal Studios with producers Brendan Duffey and Adriano Daga.
In January 2011, guitarist Augusto Lopes leaves the band and is replaced by André Evaristo. Even with the line up changing, the band does not stop, remaining on the road until July of the same year. One month later, the band cross the ocean one more time, for the European part of the Æquilibrium Tour 2011, with more than 40 concerts in 12 countries until the end of October, including the third concert on the German festival Wacken Open Air, turning Torture Squad into the only Brazilian band to play three times in the festival.
In March 2012, the frontman Vitor Rodrigues leaves the band. Soon after that, the band turned out to be a power trio with André Evaristo taking the lead vocals along the guitar. With this line up they played with important concerts and festivals in South America, which is held in Quito city, the capital city of Ecuador, for an approximate audience of 25,000 people.
In 2013, the band celebrates the 20th anniversary of the release of the demo-tape A Soul in Hell, their first studio record, which was celebrated in the Twenty Years Torturing People Tour 1993–2013, that started in May in Europe, alongside Artillery, Gama Bomb and Tantara, with 18 concerts in 20 days. From April to August, 2013, the band chooses, again, Norcal Studios to record their seventh studio album, Esquadrão de Tortura (Torture Squad in Portuguese), and reprising the association with Brendan Duffey and Adriano Daga as producers. Esquadrão de Torture is the first work recorded by the band as a trio and the first lyrical concept album, narrating, in chronological order, the period in which Brazil was governed by a military regime (from 1964 to 1985), being also the first album to have a title in Portuguese. The official release date was November 15, the Brazilian Republic Day.
In July and August 2014, the band do their second South American tour with thirteen shows in four countries; Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Paraguay. Finishing the year in their hometown São Paulo / SP on December, 20, recording its show to be released on DVD and CD entitled “Coup d´État Live”, set to be launched in the middle of 2015. In September 2015, vocalist / guitarist André Evaristo leaves Torture Squad to pursue other personal projects, therefore, the band back to its traditional line-up as a quartet bringing Mayara “Undead” Puertas on vocals and Rene Simionato on guitars, continuing the tour of “Coup D´État Live”. Already with their new line up, the band goes to studio to record the EP “Return of Evil”, with four songs: the new “Return of Evil”, “Swallow Your Reality” and “Iron Squad”, and the new version of “Dreadful Lies”, originally released in the 1998 first album Shivering. The EP will also have a multimedia track with the video clip of “Return of the Evil” and a mini documentary of the EP recording sessions, and the videos of “Dreadful Lies” and “Iron Squad” exclusively made for the EP, which will be released in March 2016.
In September 2016, the band made a historic tour in Brazil playing 28 gigs in 32 days throughout the country from north to south. Soon after the Brazilian tour, the band goes to a European tour doing 19 gigs passing by seven countries. The Return of Evil tour finishes in February 2017, doing 13 shows during 16 days in the country side of São Paulo and Paraná.
In April 2017, the band starts the recordings of their eighth album entitled Far Beyond Existence released on July 13 (World Rock Day). In August 2017, they started the Far Beyond Existence Tour as headliner, alongside Brazilian bands Hatefulmurder, Warcursed and Reckoning Hour, performing 26 shows in 30 days all over Brazil. In November, after seven years, the band returns to Buenos Aires / Argentina for a mini tour of four dates.
Starting the year 2018, they returns to the road with the band. The “Zumbis Squad Tour” undertakes eight shows in the country side of São Paulo in February. In March, the band makes another South American tour, playing in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Chile.
专辑列表：
1995 – Shivering
1999 – Asylum Of Shadows
2001 – The Unholy Spell
2003 – Pandemonium
2004 – Death Chaos and Torture Alive
2008 – Hellbound
2010 – ?quilibrium
2013 – Esquadr?o De Tortura
2015 – Coup D’ Etat (LIVE)
2017 – Far Beyond Existence
2019 – Torture Years (Compilation)
